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0 a W. "0 PERKINS & T. 0. JOHNSON.

4 SLIDE AND HOUK FOR SLINIG STRAPS OF FIREARMS.

No 575,164 r Patented Jan. 12. 1897.

" uncr eu'r, Assignees o T e AW .WS LYLACF To aTt'li/vh oinllit bury concern:

and THOMAS-C. JOHNSON, of New liaven,-'fn

iu Slides and Hooks for the Sling-Straps of lowing, when taken in. connection with the l accompanying drawings and the letters of ref' 'erence marked thereon, to he a. full, elcar, and

-'exact description-of the same, and which said and represent, in-' "and also showing the foward end of thearm -a-detaehed plan view of the slide; Fig.4, a similar view of the stacking-swiveL 1 I ,Our invention relates to an improyement in 1 2 5 the slides and hooks employed in connection with the sling-straps of portable firearms, the

' object being to produce simple, strong, and convenient sling-strep attachments, constructed with particular reference to conven- '30 ience of operation,effectiveness and security 1 in use, to neatness of appearance, and to the 3 'avoidance of corners which will scratch the arm or catehthe clothing or other objects.

With these ends in view our invention con- '35 sists in certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out our invention, as herein shown, we employ nsling-strap-securing book 40 composed of a, body portion or eye A an a hook proper or beak A, made of a single piece of wire, which will preferably be steel wire, although brass wire or an y other suitable wire may be employed, if desired. 15y preference the ends of the wire are inclosed in the opposite The hook proper or beat: A',which is consid- Firenrms; and we do hereby declare the folntm1 ki si ifl G -STBAPSr IR sons v I i if, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 575,164, tinted Isnuery 12 j i nunoi and Octoheri, 1896. sesame. rotate-mo oarif i r el-atiy'miiokei the, 1.;Be it known that we, WILLmn C. Pnnxins 1 set, as it'were, from the middle of the outer {the county of New Haven and Stateof Con-1 5 pecticnt, have invented a new Improvement "drawings constitute part of this specification,

-Figure l a broken view, in side elevation," of 15 agun pr ,vided with a sling-strap having our improvedattaehments; Fig. 2, a broken 'rever-so plan viewof the strap, showing the so curing-hook, the slide, and the snap-swivel,

zo nnd the stacking-swivel, with which the se- "curing-hook is shown to be engaged; Fig. 3,

UNiTEni STATES (PATENT omen ILLIXM o. risnitms nsn Thomas 0. Jonlvsosypr new niv'nx, Cox- WIXCIIESTHRBETEATING Anus con :side bar of the eye A of the'hook, andjs bent but in about the'sanie vertical planeas the outer side bar of the said eye. "iThis-ho'ok is designed with particular reference to be engaged with the stackiug swivel B of the; arm in such it manner thnt it cannot in any ordinary use of thearm' be nccidentall y detached the eye A is long, noe

over in to the plane thereof, the extreme end of the bean being in a higher horizontal plane 'from the swiv'ehnnd, furthermore, in such a 7 rug-swivel D l-is' made from n single .piece of ends .of the wirelying in the outer Aside-liar to the interior of the swivel of corresponding manner that the presence of the hook will not p interfere with the. use of the-swivel in stack: r in g the arms in the ordinary way. .The stack wire and is'johlong in general formfwith' rounded ends and virtually straight sides, the t and being sufficiently apart to permit access swivels, so that the swivels of two other guns may be engaged with it in stacking arms in the nsualway; The said stacking-swivel is formed, by prcference,'oi steel wire, although other wire, snch'as brass wire, may be used, and swiveled in the usual manner in a-horizontnl opening formed in a-lug (,extending downward from an arm 0, extending rearwnrd from the forward band of the gun, the said band being of any approved construction and not being shown herein. -The body portion or eye A of the sling-strap-seeuring hook is large enough in its opening to pass overthe oval oblong stacking-swivel when the securing-hook is tilted with respect thereto.

We may here remark that for the purpose of security the length of the opening within the eye of the securing-hook is less than the external length of the swivel, so that the securing-hook will not pass directly over the ing thus been passed over the swivel, is drawn downward, so that the beak of the hook then comes into engagement with the inner portion ot' the swivel close to the opposite faces of the lug in which the same is journaled. The securing-hook is in this way very safely connected with the swivel, from 5 which it cannot be detached until it is lifted ,into the plane of the swivel and tilted, which j requires the lengthening, and therefore the I loosening, of the sling-strap D, the loop of which is passed through the body portion or o eye of the hook. .-i 5 -5 "c 1?; The sling-strap slide employed for virtually lengthening and shortening the sling-strap is formed of suitable wire, such as steel or brass wire, and comprises. two eyes E E, corre inclined 'J'planes. shown, the 'slide .is

.216 small sheet-metal sleeves or tubes F-and F. :The center bar of the slide is composed of two portions of wire twisted upon'each otherone'eye of, the slide to the'other, and vice 5 verso, whereby the wire is disposed in the lide so as to efiectualiy resist the rocking or swiveling of the two eyes of the slide upon the bar as a center. Thus the wire a, which ,forms tbe upper portion of the eye E, is twistthe lower-portion of the eyegE, while the L eye E, is bent to form theeoils b and b, the

;to form the lowerportion of the eye E. 'JW'e do not limit ourselves to forming our peculformed from a single piece; but in any over the twisted barbetween them. The i fend D of the sling-strap is secured to the 5 slide around the twisted center thereof, as

{very clearly shown in Fig. l, the end of the strap being scarfed and sewed in the usual manner. --The main portion of the sling-strap i ,is then passed't-hroughrthe slide, which de 5o fleets it and grips it so that the harder the longitudinal strain upon the strap the greater the grip of the slide.

n The opposite end D of the sling-strap is secured to a sling-strap snap-swivel, which 55 may be of any approved construction and which, as herein shown, comprises an eye G,

through which the end of 'the strap is passed and secured to its adjacent portion by a button- D". The said snap-swivel also comprises 60 a push-pin G, encircled by a spring G and having riveted to its opposite end a bar or gate G, the outer end of which is perforated to pass over a bar G, riveted in the outer end 5 spending to each other, both oblong in form with rounded corners and standingin slightlyformed of two pieces of wire corresponding in'length and having their ends inclosed in I in such amannerthat the wire crosses from 30 ed to form coils a, a, and a, the then remaining end of the wire being shaped to form wire 19, which forms the upper portion of the 5 then remaininge n'd of the wire being shaped :"iar slide from two pieces of wire, as it may.

event it might lie-formed so that the two eyes cannot be changed in position with respect to each otherby swiveling ti;eu1,'soto speak,

of an arm G, which is parallel with G and formed integral with the eye as aforesaid, this swivel may be of proved construction and we do not herein. The strap is also passed tli swinging eye Ii, swiveled in a in pr downward from the lower-band H of In view of the modifications her gested and of others which may be 1 would have it ,nnderstood that we limit ourselves to the eonstructior shown, but hold ourselves at liberty such changes as fairly fall within ti and scope of our invention??? Having fully described our inventi we claim as new, and desi seguri ters Patent,'is- 1. A sling-strap-securing hookcoi an oblong body portion or eye, and which is narrower than the eye is 1on1 tends outward from the middle of 1 side bar of the eye, d b in ra plane thereof. :i v 2. "A sling-strap-securmg hook for! a'single piece of wire, and comprisit long eye having' rounded corners; comprising a beak narrower thhn't long extending outward from the r the outer side bar of the eye and hen ward, substantially in the plane the .1113. In a firearm, the combinatior stacking-swivel of ob1ong form, an its outer side bar open, of a sling-st asling-strap-secnringhookthronghi strap is passed, and which comprise portion or eye, and a hook proper or: eye ot thehook being less in intern than the wettermtl. length of the j: swivel, so that the hook cannot be a or removed from the swivel withou it so as to allow one end of its eye'to the's'wivel at a time. '4. Aslide formed of .wire an cc tw'o corresponding eyes located in planes, and a central twisted bar, tl one eye extendin'g across the slide other eye, and vice versa, whereb; eyes are prevented from swiveling spect to each other, substantially as 6. A slide formed of wire and 0t two corresponding eyes immovablyl planes inclined with respect to each also comprising a central twisted which the wire of each eye enters.

In testimony whereof we have si specification in the presence of two ing witnesses.

WILLIAM 0. PE] THOMAS C. JOHI 

